As an example, we are dealing with a request right now for which the number of records could get into the tens of millions.
Let's just say there were 30 million. If you were processing one page a minute all day, every day, it would take.... Well, you can do probably 120,000 pages a year. What that means is that it would take roughly 300 person-years to process that one request for all those records.
Imagine all of the members of the House of Commons working on one file for an entire year—nothing else, just working on one file—and the person who suggested that file paid $5 to make that request. I do not believe that is a prudent use of taxpayer dollars. I think there should be some limit on that.
We should be able to limit the requests that we answer in some ways, and I think what's in the act is in fact quite reasonable.